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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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Ideas Intelligence Kind Taste
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
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Audience Literature Writing
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Existence Inspirational Photography
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People

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